Professor Lip, MD, is an academic clinical cardiologist based in a busy city centre teaching hospital and leads a large, multidisciplinary research group (including clinical and laboratory-based components).
He is also Visiting Professor of Haemostasis Thrombosis and Vascular Sciences in the School of Life & Health Sciences at the University of Aston in Birmingham, England.
Professor Lip is Adjunct Professor in Cardiovascular Sciences at Aalborg University, Denmark. Furthermore, he is Visiting Professor of Cardiology at Belgrade University, Serbia. In 2014, he was conferred Honorary Professor in Department 1 of Geriatric Cardiology, Nanlou Division, Chinese PLA General Hospital & Chinese PLA Medical School, Beijing, China.
Half of his time is spent as a clinician, and he practises the full range of cardiovascular medicine, including outpatient clinics, with large atrial fibrillation and hypertension specialist clinics, and coronary care units. He also undertakes coronary intervention and assists in a 24/7 primary angioplasty rota for ST elevation MIs.
As an academic, Professor Lip provides strategy and research direction for his group, with many local, national, and international collaborations in progress. He has had a major interest into the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF), as well as the pathophysiology of thromboembolism in this arrhythmia. Furthermore, he has been researching stroke and bleeding risk factors, and improvements in clinical risk stratification. The CHA2DS2-VASc and HAS-BLED scores for assessing stroke and bleeding risk, respectively - were first proposed and independently validated following his research, and are now incorporated into major international management guidelines.
His work into improving AF clinical management won the Heart Rhythm UK 'Arrhythmia Alliance Team of the Year Award 2012'
In addition, he awarded the BMJ Group Awards 'Cardiovascular Team of the Year 2013'
In April 2013, Professor Lip was conferred an honorary doctorate (Doctor Medicinae Honoris Causa) from Aalborg University
Professor Lip was also selected to the Thomson Reuters Science Watch list of "Who and What was Hot in Scientific Research in 2012" (issued June 2013) which lists the most influential scientific researchers and research papers of the year.
In June 2014, he also listed amongst the year's Thomson Reuters Science Watch list of Hottest Researchers of 2013, and was the only cardiologist on the list.
In June 2014, he was listed as a Highly Cited Researcher, which represents some of the world's most influential scientists whose work has been consistently judged by their peers to be of particular significance, being the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication [issued June 2014]. Professor Lip was one of the 4 named Birmingham academics on this list.
In January 2014, Professor Lip was ranked by Expertscape as the world's leading expert in the understanding and treatment of AF, and correspondingly, the University of Birmingham listed as the world's top institution for AF research.
In May 2014, Professor Lip was also ranked by Expertscape as amongst the top 10 of the world's leading experts in the understanding and treatment of hypertension.